7:45AM
1 20-ounce Coke Zero--0 calories
12:30PM
2 ounces of cashews--320 calories
2 hamburger patties--860 calories
4 small slices of fine Wisconsin cheeses (Jalapeno Jack, Colby Jack, Swiss, and Salsa Cheddar)--250 calories
1 Tbs mayo--100 calories
6:15PM
1 La Tortilla Factory low-carb wrap--50 calories
6 slices of deli turkey slices--45 calories
2 slice of American cheese--120 calories
1 Tbs mayo--100 calories
1/2 cup Blueberry Nut Flax Z Snax Granola--177 calories
TOTAL CALORIES: 2022
CURRENT WEIGHT: 253.2
NOTE: We finally made it back home from our trip to Hilton Head, SC this week for Christine's chelation therapy treatments and unexpected car repair...HOME SWEET HOME! Although I'm now officially "off" the "sweet"-free challenge, I'm being much more mindful of my calories and intake of sweet-tasting foods. Since I stayed away from all things sweet for the past nearly three weeks, I went ahead and tried a small sample of a new blueberry-flavored granola from one of my favorite low-carb companies Flax Z Snax. Delicious and just enough sweet for me. I won't make it a habit to eat that stuff everyday, but it was a nice little treat at the end of my dinner meal. My calories came way back down again today after yesterday's crazy total. Feeling good about my continued weight loss chances with my weighing continuing to come DOWN! Yee haw!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
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Jimmy
Hope this get easier now you are back home and - more importantly than our obsessions about diet - I hope the treatment has helped Christine.
It would be great to see you re start the sweet free / product free diet, but a diet coke every few days or a treat every week is not a problem. But please don't make it something you are doing every day.
You have been losing fat again. Why try to change something that was working for you?
All the best
You just perfectly described what I'm doing, Chris. Using "sweet" as a limited treat only when I feel like I need to have it and eating the way I have been. Looks like my insulin sensitivity is coming back and the weight is dropping, so I have learned some invaluable lessons with this about my body.
Jimmy, I think you did amazingly well to make it through this long. Had you been so inclined, I think it would have been appropriate for you to complete your sweet-free challenge. I'm not criticizing at all, but noting that all of us go off and back on plan at different times for a whole host of reasons.
But ending the challenge, I still think you are doing well to restrict your sweet intake. I wouldn't do it myself, but I admire your determination.
I'm also want to congratulate you on seeing continued downward movement on the scale. Giving up the taste of sweet may have had some measure of an impact, but I think you are finally at the point where the Metformin is finally doing it's job. The next few weeks might tell the tale, since I assume you'll still be taking the Metformin, now being officially off the sweet challenge.
Congrats on your success, and here's to seeing it continue.
THANKS OnPoint! Yes, still taking the Metformin and attempting to live without sweet as much as I can. But I won't feel bad about having something "sweet" tasting if I want it. :)
I think you're "copping-out" of your challenge. Why did you quit? You said it was a 30day sweet-free challenge.
Anyone with half a brain can see you are seriously addicted to the taste of sweet. Just like an alcoholic.
Dude, don't let a temporary set-back (the car) derail you. I will no doubt be flamed by your devoted followers but again, I predicted this was gonna happen as soon as I saw you add back the "low carb flour tortilla" crap into your diet.
The non-cynical part of me hopes you are able to "balance" it and continue to lose. But maybe this will make you pizzed off enough to stop it...I predict before another month is out that you will again be main-lining your sugar free "carbalicious" choco-perfection bars along with every other artificial piece of crap you can find.
Sorry to be so mean Jimmy. But I for one am seriously disappointed in you. It wouldn't be nearly so bad if you were an ordinary schlep like the rest of us but you set yourself up as a role model and someone who dares to preach a philosophy (way of life).
For shame.
This is why I love the Internet--people sure got their opinions and aren't afraid to share 'em! :)
THANKS so much for telling me what you think, Pooti! I'm doing what's right for Jimmy Moore and always have. I didn't need anyone telling me I'm doing good or bad based on their own definition of what a low-carb lifestyle should be in 2004 when I lost 180 pounds and that certainly still holds true as we approach 2009.
I've willingly put myself out there for the whole world to see by showing all the foods I eat on a daily basis, along with my exercise, calories, and even when I eat something that may not exactly be on Dr. Atkins' list of approved foods. It doesn't matter because I'm not pretending to be anything but who I am--a real person who struggles just like everyone else and is doing what he needs to do to manage his weight.
Sure, I have added back in the low-carb wraps (and they aren't "crap" as you describe them--look at what they are and realize that Dr. Eades even recommends them) and will likely consume my low-carb chocolate again soon. But to that I have to say "so what?" This is my choice about my life and what will make it fulfilled.
If you'd like to start your own menus blog detailing everything about your diet and fitness plan, then have at it. I think you'd be surprised how many people may denounce things you do in your daily routine as well. I can appreciate constructive criticism and welcome it anytime. But if you do choose to cast stones at me for doing something you think is wrong, then I would only suggest you start your own blog to show the world how it is supposed to be done instead.
THANKS for reading!
Let me reiterate that the end of my "sweet"-free challenge as a set 30-day period doesn't mean I'm not applying the principles I have learned from this experience. I'm keenly aware that what I am doing now will be MUCH better than it was before for me and I call that progress. Good for you if you are able to make the leap to zero "sweet" of any kind and doing it forever. But that's not me nor would I expect anyone else to do that if they are making good choices about what "sweet" they put in their mouth. It's quite pompous for anyone to purport to know what is best for someone else without walking a mile in their shoes with all the individual conditions that make up who they are physically, emotionally, and the like.
What is it that people FAIL to get?? Poo on you, Pooti.
Jimmy isn't "selling" us a bill of goods, he is not "offering up" THE WAY. He is simply sharing his story. His story. Raw, true, good, bad, sure, unsure....you know...like life. All of our lives.
The cost of putting it out there is great and that is what is the most interesting. Non-fiction.
What is not in question is the fact that he has lost tons of weight and kept it off for years and is spending time and effort every day to improve.
Jimmy, don't change a thing. Anyone can write a blog. But, yours is true to who you are. Refreshing and priceless!
Mona
All I hear from both of your posts is rationalization. The bottom line is that you committed publicly to a 30-day sweet-free challenge. You had people doing it WITH you. You invited people to come along on your journey.
Then you copped-out.
Whatevah dude.
Until any of us conquer the demon that is our mind...we will be enslaved by our addictions and desires.
And I don't give a crap if the Eades recommend them. Lo-carb wraps are crap. Read the label.
I agree that its your body and your blog but I also see Pooti's point....And I have to ask....Is readding artificial sweeteners back into your diet REALLY whats best for Jimmy Moore? Im sure your addiction to the sweet says so but does the science support that. Didnt your three weeks of abstinance show you that you were on to something? Im a little dissapointed you didnt just drink the soda....call it a day and finish the 30 days. You were so close to the 30 days, creating a solid habit, and kicking your addiction. I am one of the people who joined you on giving up the diet soda along with caffeine and artificial sweeteners cause of your concerns over them and wanting to take advantage of any health benefits that resulted. I can honestly say Ive never felt or slept better and I was extremely addicted to diet soda. Mind you I didnt diet strictly during this period though but I truly believed you were doing the best thing for your body by giving up the artificial sweeteners and I couldnt believe how it accelerated your weightloss. You were just on the verge of proving something we all wondered about in the back of our minds.....Chris summed it up when he asked....why change something that was working for you?
Jimmy, I am one that was inspired by your challenge I came to realize that going low carb and counting calories is ok. We are so used to hearing "unlimited meat and fish" I think its refreshing to see that yes, its ok to go low carb and count calories too. I say your 30 day challenge is a success, I am one person you helped.
I can understand where pooti is coming from. The sugar-free stuff is okay to have occasionally but if you are having problems losing weight then its something you should eliminate for the time being. When you cut it out the weight started coming off.
But its your journey and you should do what suits you.
I agree with pooti about the low-carb wraps being crap. Its not going to hurt occasionally but better off with a lettuce wrap.
If you're going to have your coke, perhaps drink a smaller coke instead of 20 ounce (600mL). Do you have smaller than 20 ounce in America?
Jimmy, I'm constantly amazed at how you can continue to put your life out there for all to see and still maintain your equilibrium. These sad, disappointed folks are precisely the reason why I cannot join support weight loss groups, such as Weight Watchers, or TOPS, etc., because I simply cannot bear the constant scrutiny of every morsel I put in my mouth. It matters not to these hypercritics whether their target has had success eating a certain way or not; experimentation is not allowed; deviation in the slightest is not tolerated. As a teenager, I felt overwhelming guilt if I ate a single cookie, which was "illegal" on Weight Watchers. This sort of all or nothing mentality is one of the main obstacles that many overweight persons have to overcome. Who, truly, are the obsessed ones, hmmm? Personally, I don't believe that the taste of sweet raises insulin levels, but that it's the type of sweetener, artificial or not, that has a bigger effect. Dr. Bernstein mentions that various types of sweeteners marketed as sugar-free really are not, and each person's system deals with them differently. He recommends products that have no maltodextrin in them, among others, and mostly suggest tablets or liquid sweeteners that avoid the bulking agents that seem to have the biggest immpact on insulin and blood sugars. If it were just the taste of sweet that caused problems, I doubt that he would permit desserts on his diabetic solution diet.
I can't believe the judgmental tone of some of your critics. You are so honest and forthright to list your menus. You've stated so many times that you are looking for the solutions to your own, unique weight issues - not holding yourself up as a measure of perfection. If you want a Diet Coke or anything else, then you know whether to have it or not. The object as I see it, is to find a balance that will allow us to eat foods we love and still lose weight and be healthy - its trial and error and knowing your own body. If anyone thinks absolute deprivation ever works, then read "Confessions of a Carb Queen" and see the misery of deprivation and failure that woman lived.
I've read that book, Marie, and even tried to interview the author. But her publisher said she was so ashamed that she had gained back much of her weight she'd lost that she turned down my request. It is such a shame how people can be so sure about what's best for someone else without truly going through what they are in their life. THANKS for your support!
You know Jimmy. I pretty well understand what you are going through in your life right now. My brother died 5 years ago (in September) at the age of 50 and left two teenage boys (12 and 16) at the time. He died of what the coroner referred to as an MI and was in CHF and had intentionally uncontrolled diabetes along with other medical issues. The boys will never hunt or fish with him again. They will never get an attaboy from him. Their lives and the lives of our entire family changed that day - irrevocably. Added to that, I have been back and forth with financial issues, bad cars, etc. It's called life.
I am as human as the next person and generally don't get into the "judgement game". But it really does get me when someone sets them up as an authority on a subject and is argumentative towards just about every suggestion from others because they know better themselves, commit to something publicly, basque in the narcissistic attention that follows the pseudo-commitment, then fail (yes fail, cuz you quit - not cuz you fell and were less than perfect) and make rationalizations because "life is too hard right now and is dealing you lemons".
Well, again Jimmy, it's all rationalization. Balance is fine, balance is good - theoretically, but you didn't commit to balance. YOu committed to a sweet free challenge and you were seeing results HUGE results. Then you just decided to quit. You set yourself up as a role-model (something I don't desire. I have no narcissistic tendencies in me). That is completely different in my opinion. You don't want to be held up to scrutiny? Then don't set yourself up publicly as a role model or advocate and you won't be judged.
I am sorry you are having to experience pain and hardship. It sucks no matter who you are - narcissist, role model or ordinary schlep like me.
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